To the Editor:

It’s not often that I have a “spit out my coffee” moment, but Mr. Sorce’s letter (“Leadership Lacking,” 9/1) did it for me. When you talk about leadership you have to consider the goal you are leading your people to. I’m using “your people” in the same way others use “those people” to describe humans outside of their comfort range by virtue of ethnic origin, skin color or a foreign accent.

The Trump administration was specifically nativist. Its goal was to stop the scourge of brown people coming into the…

September 8, 2021